City Lab’s John Metcalfe likens it to that planet-sized intergalactic destroyer of actual planets in the original Star Wars films, the Death Star — rightly so, as Lutz herself explains how she “removed all of the water labels, since they distracted from the illusion of floating in space.”

There is indeed an ominous feel of an almost Orwellian, globally-urbanized new world order, suggesting perhaps that the planet’s population was wiped-out by extra-terrestrials seeking to exploit Earth’s bountiful resources and enslave the few humans who survived the initial invasion.